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Think you know your US presidents? See if D.C. Decoder can stump you!

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President Ronald Reagan, joined by former Presidents Richard Nixon (l.), Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter (r.), toast one another in the Blue Room at the White House on Oct. 8, 1981, as the four met prior to the departure of the three former presidents to Cairo for the funeral of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.

Who pays for the president's food? Which president has a sport named after him? Match wits with a master of useless (but entertaining) presidential information.

  • By Peter Grier Staff writer

1. Which president burned the first shipment of Japanese cherry trees to Washington?

John Tyler, because he was out of firewood

William Taft, because they were full of bugs

Franklin Roosevelt, because of Pearl Harbor

Gerald Ford, by accident
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